Hello all!
I'm in the position where I'm teaching a Lisp laboratory at my
university (undergraduate level). The problem is that all the students
are reluctant to this new language and deem it somewhere between a toy
and an academic / research language... (I know... I'm a bad teacher :)
.)
So in order to capture their attention I would like to give them
some real-world applications where Lisp (Scheme, Common Lisp, or
something derived from Lisp) is a major component. (By real world
application I mean something released either as a software product or
a web-based system...)
(I know that the main reason for learning Lisp is both for it's
functional programming style and meta-programming... But try telling
this to a bunch of kids who think that knowing PHP, MySQL and the
latest and greatest JavaScript library means computer science... :) )
So I know a few ones:
* Yahoo Store (early version) done by Paul Graham;
* Reddit (written in PLT Scheme and then rewritten in Python);
* Y Combinator (Arc over PLT Scheme);
* WebBlocks (actually a framework);
* any other examples?
Replies very much appreciated,
Ciprian.